Prophetic: meaning, example and synonyms
Propheticadj. Accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future.
Example
The engineer's warning about the dam's weak foundation proved prophetic when spring floods cracked the spillway a decade later.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Synonyms
- predictive, prescient, foresighted, visionary
- Antonyms
- shortsighted, mistaken, unforeseeing
- Memory tip
- A PROPHET foretells; a prophetic remark comes true later.
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Check yourself: Prophetic in context
An economist's early warning that cheap credit would fuel a housing bubble seemed alarmist at the time but proved ______ when prices collapsed years later.
Answer: prophetic. A warning that came true years later proved prophetic. Onerous (burdensome), tractable (easily managed) and quirky (oddly unusual) don't fit this context.
Readers now find the old novel's description of pocket-sized devices linking every person on earth strangely ______, given that it was written decades before such technology existed.
Answer: prophetic. Describing technology decades before it existed is prophetic. Stern (strict and severe), onerous (burdensome) and tractable (easily managed) don't fit this context.